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authorDamien Cassou <damien@cassou.me>2018-05-28 17:12:34 +0200
committerNoam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>2018-05-29 08:17:32 -0400
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Improve read-multiple-choice docstring (Bug#31628)
* lisp/emacs-lisp/rmc.el (read-multiple-choice): Improve docstring.
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/rmc.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/rmc.el
index 3dd3508903a..31974782b53 100644
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/rmc.el
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/rmc.el
@@ -30,12 +30,12 @@
"Ask user a multiple choice question.
PROMPT should be a string that will be displayed as the prompt.
-CHOICES is an alist where the first element in each entry is a
-character to be entered, the second element is a short name for
-the entry to be displayed while prompting (if there's room, it
-might be shortened), and the third, optional entry is a longer
-explanation that will be displayed in a help buffer if the user
-requests more help.
+CHOICES is a list of (KEY NAME [DESCRIPTION]). KEY is a
+character to be entered. NAME is a short name for the entry to
+be displayed while prompting (if there's room, it might be
+shortened). DESCRIPTION is an optional longer explanation that
+will be displayed in a help buffer if the user requests more
+help.
This function translates user input into responses by consulting
the bindings in `query-replace-map'; see the documentation of
@@ -46,9 +46,9 @@ perform the requested window recentering or scrolling and ask
again.
When `use-dialog-box' is t (the default), this function can pop
-up a dialog window to collect the user input. That functionality
-requires `display-popup-menus-p' to return t. Otherwise, a text
-dialog will be used.
+up a dialog window to collect the user input. That functionality
+requires `display-popup-menus-p' to return t. Otherwise, a
+text dialog will be used.
The return value is the matching entry from the CHOICES list.